The plan, then, is to travel around the Outer Circle by bus only (no walking) visiting every other bus stop along the route. I will spend at least 10 minutes at each stop where I will do the following:

• Take one TTV photo of the bus stop. This will be a portrait showing how it sits in its environment.
• Standing at the bus stop, take at least 6 (normal) photographs of interesting things visible from it.
• Record one minute of ambient audio.
• Make any notes that occur to me while waiting for the next bus.
• Photograph the next bus as it approaches

There are rules. But not many:

• Get on the 11C at some point after 11am on 11/11.
• Get off the 11C exactly one circuit later.
• You can get on and off the bus as many times as you like (don’t spend more than an hour off bus at one time).
• Document your journey; photos, film, writing, cross-stitch, knitting, amigurumi, poetry, blog, twitter, however you like.
• Meet up with others as mad as you, if you want.
• Record everything here — or on your own space and link us up.

Get on. Get round. Get off.

By the power of online communication.

• If you’re tweeting your tweets should show up on this site — as long as you use the words “eleven bus” or 11bus or 11-11-11 or something like that. “11bus” is the shortest and easiest, probably.
• If you’re taking photos put them online on Flickr and tag 111111C, pop them on the map too if you can. The latest will appear bottom left on the site.
• Read, or comment on the Live Blog on this site – elevenbus.co.uk/live-blog/.
• Post videos online on YouTube and tag them 111111C.
• Blog posts tagged 111111C we’ll find soon enough, or those that link back here (elevenbus.co.uk).
• Place anything you like on the Google map.
• If you’re doing anything else (or something in the real world that you can’t easily whack online), please pop us an email with the details.

Of course, in a post 11-hours-on-a-bus haze, there’ll be proper round-ups on the 12th.

Get to it!

We’ve had 27 “definites” say yes on Facebook, and 40 “maybes”. We’ll see.

A further 7 or so have said yes on the blog’s sign-up page.

Louise Whitmore will be photographing and drawing.

‘Eightball’ has “something planned with original hammond music”.

Mark Steadman is planning to record or broadcast for his Rhubarb Radio show.

Tom Lennon is coming, I think.

TWMDriver doesn’t say whether he’s coming or not. Maybe he’ll be driving one.

Diamond Geezer from that London isn’t coming (I don’t think), but he likes the idea.

There’s still time to make the decision and come, you don’t have to but it would be nice if you left a note here.

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Join in and add places of interest or places we can safely take break. Add where you’re starting, with a special bus icon of you like.

I’m not on this one, I haven’t seen the photos yet — probably won’t until they hit the papers (despite my exhibitionist tendencies I don’t really like looking at photos of myself).

It got to meet some of the people that look after the 11 — the bus is based at Acock’s Green — including Mark the area manager and found out that they have 40 11s on the road on any one day.

Most importantly they really like the idea of people spending 11 hours on the bus and even invited passing 11-11-11ers in for a cup of tea on the day.

Don’t forget to sign-up if you’re coming, and even if you’re not you can help with writing the History of the 11.

Download the 11-11-11 poster. No flyposting now.

As preparation for the trip on the 11/11 we’d like to collect as many eleven route memories as we can – be they on-bus annecdotes, or tales about places the bus trundles through on it’s circumferencial journey.

Leave them in the comments here, or write about them elsewhere and drop us the link. Photos can be uploaded to flickr and tagged 111111c – if you place them on the map we’ll be able to see themall laid out lovely.

Eleven hours on the eleven bus — join us.

The rules:

• Get on the 11C at 11am (or as near as dammit) on 11/11.
• Get off the 11C at 10pm — 11 hours later — (or as near as dammit) on 11/11.
• You can get on and off the bus as many times as you like (don’t spend more than an hour off bus).
• Document your journey; photos, film, writing, cross-stitch, knitting, amigurumi, poetry, blog, twitter, however you like.
• Meet up with others as mad as you, if you want.

The point:

A post-cultural, post-sporting, post-everything pyschogeographical document of the city. The clockwise circling will create a centripetal force for good.

The route:

On the TWM site, or as a video.

The practicalities:

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The inspiration:

This is kind of inspired by Gimpo’s 25 Hour M25 spin.